10:00 PM on 12.28.2010 |
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In the previous debate I started bringing the massive RPG debate tournament qualifiers to a close by asking everyone which Wild Arms game was their favorite out of the entire series. After reading through all of the comments it's clear that there's a lot of different opinion about some of the games, but when it comes down to votes here's how the rankings ended up:
- Wild Arms (14 votes) -- Winner!
- Wild Arms 3 (8 votes)
- Wild Arms 2 (2 votes)
- Wild Arms 5 (1 vote)
- Wild Arms XF (1 vote)
This week you'd better be ready for a huge debate because it's time for my annual question: What's your favorite game of 2010? I'm not asking which you think is the best, I want to know your personal favorite of the year. Destructoid has announced its winner and bonus winners, and I know the Destructoid Show had a Twitter poll for reader votes, but I know not all of you have Twitter accounts. So here we go! Let's settle 2010 once and for all. If you don't have a Dtoid account yet, what are you waiting for?!
Cast your vote in the comments (voting for more than one game gets you disqualified) and check back next week for the results! Bonus Question: What was your least favorite game of 2010?
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Super Meat Boy is a close one too, but i dunno.
I don't know that I played any bad games at all this year... I'm very selective with my purchases.
My least favourite game this year is probably No More Heroes 2.
My least favourite game of 2010, tougher question. I can think of Fallout: New Vegas as being disappointing. Not only did it lack diagonal walking animations which I found half-hilarious, half-sad (shows an incredible lack of polish to me despite the rest of the game looking good), but there were many weird bugs, when I first started the game the doctor's fact was purple (no texture), and when I quit and restarted the game would crash until I re-downloaded about a gigabyte worth of data. I started the game, it was decent, but the combat was tedious to me. I don't know if it's because I'm not used to WRPGs, or because I picked the wrong stats or something. I just kept dying and running out of ammo at the very beginning of the game. It frustrated me.
Maybe I need to give it another chance but it was pretty tedious for me to play.
I think Super Street Fighter 4 might be my favorite. I played it forever.
Least Favorite: Army of Two: The 40th Day. This game is mind-numbingly terrible.
ME2 and Meat Boy were so horribly over-rated.
2) Kirby's Epic Yarn
3) Tie between Sin and Punishment 2 and Donkey Kong Country Returns
4) Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
People are probably going to hate me for this, but my least favorite is probably Fallout New Vegas. It's an improvement over 3, and I'll acknowledge that. It's just I really don't find them fun, the environments are drab and uninspired, the graphics are only mediocre and the gameplay is very RNG. Where they could be as stylised and an inspired visual style like Bioshock for instance, the game just comes off as very monochromatic and generic. What is there isn't executed that well, graphically. And the music is utterly hideous. The writing is rather good though.
Haven't had a fantastic year of games, as it stands. Mainly been playing older ones. Found it extraordinarily difficult to get excited about anything this year. I think I only preordered 3 things - one of which I cancelled, another I've only just started playing (BC2, which is superb) and another I got bored of within a day.
Fuck you guys, Hadoken or die.
I HAVE to mention Amnesia: the Dark Descent as one of the best game I played this year. Mass Effect 2 and Civ V are also honorable mentions.
My least favorite would probably be Minecraft. I love the concept, but I just can't get into it. I'm glad that it's successful and enjoyable to many others, though.
I've sunk over 150 hours into that bitch.
Not because I was whoring to get that last achievement, but of love!
And Kane and Lynch 2 disappointed me beyond belief.
The biggest and most expected letdown was Final Fantasy XIII, Metroid: Other M wasn't so hot either...
Everyone else sucks.
Least Favorite:Halo Reach (sorry, it just didn't click with me)
3D Dot Game Heroes, Sin and Punishment 2, DKCR, and DeathSmiles are runner ups I guess.
altho my trip through amnesia was a short one, it was definitely one of the sweetest. while growing up. things like resident evil (the first one in the mansion and its remake) and silent hill (esp the second entrance in the series, i mean, cmon) gave me the creeps while growing up, and ever since ive left my teen years ive found it harder and harder to be frightened by any media as i know "its not real."
but amnesia did the unthinkable by drawing me in with a good and believable story (yeah, i know it gets a little crazy towards the end), and scaring the shit out of me as i darted through darkly lit hallways of a cellar dungeon and jumped into the first cell i deemed to be safe, as in too far away for the monsters to see me.
and there, i would sit, staring at the damp stones that made up the walls in the cell. i would hear the footsteps getting closer as they dragged and shuffled their way towards me. the cell was dark, and my sanity was slowly slipping away as the figure got closer and closer. i had no weapons, and no where else to hide. with my heart literally pounding, all i could do was sit and hope it couldnt hear me breathing and walk on by.
then it started to smash through the door.
that feeling of helplessness is so rare to find in a survival type games nowadays. i cant just gun down or beat the everloving shit out of my antagonist. whats worse, he can pop up seemingly out of nowhere. and every second that passes by, this shadow creeps closer and closer to you, ready to envelop you in pure death.
the experience was exhilerating, fresh, and more importantly actually evoked an emotional reaction out of me. i felt true fear and helplessness, and thanks to the story, i felt vulnerable and also like i was the monster myself. an absoloutely breathtaking experience i suggest no one pass up.
Least Favorite: Splinter Cell Conviction, this is by no means a horrible game, I was just disappointed that it exchanged all of its core values for Jack Bauer/Jason Bourne material. It could have been much better.
Followed by Mass Effect 2 and Birth by Sleep.